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Chizu地図

Draw SVG maps, frame regions, place numbered callouts and build geography quizzes with English and Japanese names.

Chizu is the Japanese word 地図 for map. About the name

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Reference · Canada regions

defaultconstant

Canada: 13 provinces and territories, Natural Earth 5.1.2 admin-1 states and provinces, 1:10m, fitted to 1000x720. The native map geometry, region identifiers, names, projection and insets; coordinates belong to this canvas.

Import it

import value from "@johnmorrisdotca/chizu/divisions/ca";

Definition

const map: ChizuMap

Members

NameTypeDescription
idstring

world, country-fr (France alone, from Natural Earth's countries) or divisions-fr (its départements).

kind"world" | "country" | "divisions" | "local"

What its regions are: the whole world, a single country, the divisions of one, or the shapes of a local map of a city or a venue.

namestring

The map's name in English and Japanese.

nameJa (optional)string | undefined
regionNamestring

What a region is called here, singular and plural, in English: Country, Province.

regionNamePluralstring
viewBoxstring

The canvas: 0 0 width height.

widthnumber
heightnumber
wrapsboolean

Whether its east edge is its west edge: a map of the earth is a cylinder cut open, and pans round without stopping.

projectionChizuProjection
insetsChizuInset[]

The regions drawn in boxes of their own.

sourcestring

Where the outlines come from, in a line.

regionsChizuRegion[]

Examples

import map from "@johnmorrisdotca/chizu/divisions/ca";
console.log(map.id, map.kind, map.regions.length, map.viewBox);
// divisions-ca divisions 13 0 0 1000 720
divisions-ca divisions 13 0 0 1000 720

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/chizu 1.5.0.